72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by jlgaddis on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:33AM (#25314419)

> ... and the response to that is hardcoding a set of known good DNS servers which we can rely on.

Netgear, at one point, also decided that hard-coding an IP address (for NTP, not DNS) was the best solution [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Ne...

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by bsagdiyev on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:17AM (#25315614)

Sony did the same thing with a Blu-Ray player for NTP, effectively DDoSed that particular box because they also didn’t think to stagger the polling so like clockwork millions of consumer devices would check in at the same time nightly. From what I gathered from the electronics guys a few floors down they eventually resolved that in later revisions, or so I was told.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by lozaning on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:36PM (#25318071)

I worked on an IoT platform for a while that struggled with this. Our workaround was to tell support to tell people to not set automations to run on the quarter, half, 3 quarters or hour mark. Something set to run at 7:14 or 7:16 PM would run every night, something set to run at 7:15 was a crapshoot.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by Rychard on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:48AM (#25314537)

As opposed to? I thought you had to specify your DNS server as an IP address. How would it resolve itself?

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by jlgaddis on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:52AM (#25314562)

> As opposed to?

As opposed to the IP addresses that your DHCP server told you about.

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